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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

Gaston Bachelard

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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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We must listen to poets.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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